Robert Rodriguez Quotes

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.

I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I've directed a couple shows on that set and believe me, it's impossible not to duplicate some camera angles.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

I went to film school, trained as a director, have made a lot of movies, and taken a lot of photographs, so I tend to envision things spatially. As I'm working, I need to have a map of the space. I need to know what's happening in all corners simultaneously.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

Half of 'Mudbound' were shots I stole in between other scenes.

I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.

I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.